... Anatolia played an important role in the diversification and spread of economically important Vitis vinifera varieties. Although several biodiversity studies have been conducted with local cultivars in different regions of Anatolia, our aim is to gain a better knowledge on the biodiversity of endangered historical V. vinifera varieties in the northern Adana region of southern Anatolia, particularl ...

... High amylopectin grains of waxy sorghum have a high economic value in the food and bioenergy industries because of their increased starch digestibility and higher ethanol conversion rate compared with wild-type sorghum grains. Mutation in the granule-bound starch synthase (GBSS) gene contributes to the waxy phenotype. Two classes of waxy alleles, wxᵃ and wxᵇ, have been characterized previously. In ...

... Flowering time is a major adaptive trait in plants and an important selection criterion in the breeding for genetic improvement of crop species. QTLs for the time of flower opening and days to flower were identified in a cross between a short duration domesticated cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) variety, 524B, and a relatively long duration wild accession, 219-01. A set of 159 F₇ lines was g ...

... The important cyclic translocation 4AL–5AL–7BS is an evolutionary signature of polyploidy in wheat. This study aimed to determine its distribution within the subspecies of Triticum turgidum L., using genomic in situ hybridization and fluorescence in situ hybridization. As it exists in all eight subspecies, this translocation appeared before the differentiation of the subspecies of T. turgidum. Thi ...

... Heat shock proteins (Hsps) are an evolutionarily conserved group of molecules present in all eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms. Hsp10 and Hsp60 were originally described as the essential mitochondrial proteins involved in protein folding. Recent studies demonstrate that Hsp10 has additional roles including immune modulation. In our study, an homologous Hsp10 (Sp-Hsp10) was identified in the mud ...

... The aim of this work was to cytogenetically characterize triticale cultivars through fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis of their rye chromosomes. In the present work, we studied six cultivars of triticale (‘Cayú-UNRC’, ‘Cumé-UNRC’, ‘Genú-UNRC’, ‘Ñinca-UNRC’, ‘Quiñé-UNRC’, and ‘Tizné-UNRC’), released by the Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto (UNRC), Córdoba, Argentina. The cultivars ...